Interface CharSequence

A CharSequence is a readable sequence of char values. This
interface provides uniform, read-only access to many different kinds of
char sequences.
A char value represents a character in the Basic
Multilingual Plane (BMP) or a surrogate. Refer to Unicode Character Representation for details.

This interface does not refine the general contracts of the equals and hashCode methods. The result of comparing two
objects that implement CharSequence is therefore, in general,
undefined. Each object may be implemented by a different class, and there
is no guarantee that each class will be capable of testing its instances
for equality with those of the other. It is therefore inappropriate to use
arbitrary CharSequence instances as elements in a set or as keys in
a map.

Returns a string containing the characters in this sequence in the same
order as this sequence.

Method Detail

length

int length()

Returns the length of this character sequence. The length is the number
of 16-bit chars in the sequence.

Returns:

the number of chars in this sequence

charAt

char charAt(int index)

Returns the char value at the specified index. An index ranges from zero
to length() - 1. The first char value of the sequence is at
index zero, the next at index one, and so on, as for array
indexing.

If the char value specified by the index is a
surrogate, the surrogate
value is returned.

subSequence

Returns a new CharSequence that is a subsequence of this sequence.
The subsequence starts with the char value at the specified index and
ends with the char value at index end - 1. The length
(in chars) of the
returned sequence is end - start, so if start == end
then an empty sequence is returned.

codePoints

Returns a stream of code point values from this sequence. Any surrogate
pairs encountered in the sequence are combined as if by Character.toCodePoint and the result is passed
to the stream. Any other code units, including ordinary BMP characters,
unpaired surrogates, and undefined code units, are zero-extended to
int values which are then passed to the stream.

If the sequence is mutated while the stream is being read, the result
is undefined.